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Grade 1 La Troienne winner Big World is scheduled to be consigned to the Fasig-Tipton sale in Lexington on Nov. 6, reports bloodhorse.com. Owner Maggi Moss plans to consign the 4-year-old daughter of Custom for Carlos with Bluewater Sales. “Big World has taken me on a great journey and her victory in the La Troienne was […]

John Gunther’s Tiger Moth earned her first stakes victory, rallying late to take Indiana Grand’s $100,000 Mari Hulman George by 2 1/2 lengths over Mo d’Amour. Big World, a Grade 1 winner two races earlier who was the even-money favorite, finished another neck back third, with pacesetting Improv another two lengths back while nosing out […]

Big World made a successful ‘big leap’ into Grade 1 company when she went gate to wire to win the G1 La Troienne Stakes at Churchill Downs May 5. Sent off at odds of 7-1, Big World, a 4-year-old filly by Custom for Carlos, broke alertly under jockey Florent Geroux and went right to the […]

Seltzer Thoroughbreds’ Finest City, winner of last fall’s Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (Grade I) headlines a field of nine entered Tuesday for the 32nd running of the $300,000 La Troienne (Grade I) Presented by Spirit Funds for fillies and mares going 1 1/16 miles on the main track at Churchill Downs. The La […]

Millionaire Mobile Bay has been announced as the Accredited Louisiana-Bred 2016 Older Male Champion, according to the tallying of votes by the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association reported by drf.com. Other winners, to be honored at the LTBA’s annual meeting on June 10 at Evangeline Downs, include Tip Tap Tapizar (2-year-old male), Mr. Al’s Gal (2-year-old […]

Nominations have closed for the Grade 3, $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic which will be contested on Sunday, January 29. The mile and one-sixteenth stakes was awarded its graded status by the American Graded Stakes Committee in 2016, and remains the richest Thoroughbred race in Texas. Inaugurated in 2013, the Houston Ladies Classic was formed to […]

Valene Farms’ Hail to the Nile was courageous in victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Turf on Louisiana Champions Day presented by Acadian Ambulance, fending off a stiff two-pronged challenge in mid-stretch to post a three-quarter-length tally. Piloted by Francisco Torres, the local grass lover won his fifth race from 11 tries over the […]

Big World made the successful jump from maiden winner to graded stakes heroine with a determined half-length victory over Flora Dora in the G3 Tempted Stakes at Aqueduct Nov. 3. The Tempted marked the stakes debut for the 2-year-old daughter of Custom for Carlos, who hadn’t raced since breaking her maiden at Saratoga Sept. 6. A […]